Corry Weekend Festivities Spark City Pride and Arts
Residents and visitors flocked to Sidewalk Bazaar Daze, Beaver Club archery, and Sunday in the Park, with 15 000 prize tickets, record sales, and world champion John Williams making a rare appearance. The Corry Area Fine Arts Council showcased a strong arts hunger, while the week’s editorial section reflected national concerns over crime, politics, and trust in government.
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Corry
Beaver Club
Chamber of Commerce
John Williams
Corry Area
Fine Arts Council
Ours
Muckraker’s mission and love of America in disillusioned times
In a season of doubt the muckraker’s work is framed as essential to national integrity. He argues three social traits shape his craft: scarce corruption, citizen probity, and governmental responsiveness to truth. The piece defends investigative reporting as demanding and patriotic, urging readers to say I love America.
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America
Lee Harvey Oswald
William Calley
Charles Manson
Corry Birth and Local Education Notes from 1953
In Corry on August 15 1953 a son was born to Mr and Mrs Edward Jaworski at Corry Memorial Hospital. Jane Pirro is the mother’s former name. Mise Aue Boress heads the Corry unit of the Pennsylvania State Education Association and departs for a Penn Hall workshop in Chambersburg. The Joint Committee of Corry Area Schools may hear from Harrisburg about Wayne Township seeking single unit status from the Elgin and Concord joint grade plan.
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Edward Jaworski
North Center Street
Corry Memorial
Jane Pirro
Mise Aue Boress
Corry
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Tomorresy
Pennhall
Chambersburg
Joint Committee of the
Corry Area Schools
Supt. L.M. Douglas
Department of Public Instruction
Harrisburg
Wayne Township
Wayne
Elgin and Concord
How Far From Polling Places Must You Stand
Law Q and A explain the distance rules for election literature and polling places. The Election Code requires nonofficial persons to stay at least 10 feet from the polling place during voting, bans solicitation inside the polling place, and prohibits posting materials except as Code allows. Police may not be within 100 feet unless voting, serving a warrant, or preserving the site.
Where does time go and what is the journal’s call
A reader asks where time goes and the piece lists humorous and risqué scenarios. It notes the Corry Evening Journal invites Letters to the Editor with readable handwriting and full name, address, and signed for publication, noting the editor may edit without changing content.
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Tne 1
Corry
Babe Ruth and Baseball’s Deathly Hallmark of Fame
The author reflects on Babe Ruth’s legacy, describing his unparalleled talent and excess, and warns that baseball risks dying of a slow decay without another colorful genius. He recalls Ruth’s impact through memories of the Roaring Twenties, Bobby Jones, and Lou Gehrig as youth fades.
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Ruth
Gehrig
Bobby Jones
Helen Wills
Bill Tilden
Jack Dempsey
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White House
J. Edgar Hoover
Watergate
Corry Journal
the Milwaukee Jours
Tsien
Muckraker
H.W. Curtis
Nina Jewell
Charles McLaughlin
Philip Zalzneck
Millie Thomas
Rita Ressler
East Pleasant Street
Rex Theatre
Miss Ressler
Pennsylvania
New York
Europe
Helen Hayes
The
Riviera
Philadelphia
Raquel Welch
Babe Ruth
Swat
Huggins
Joe McCarthy
Baseball
Boston
Yankees
Miller Huggins
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Bob Considine
Considine
Babe
Lou Gehrig
Yankee Stadium
Lou
Hank Aaron
Aaron
Atlanta
Commissioner of Baseball
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